The time gradually came to August, the remnants of the Western Xia have been eliminated, and the 50,000 Western Xia cavalry in Hexi were continuously attacked and encircled by the Tubo, Song Dynasty and Qiang coalition forces, with heavy casualties, Wei Minglang had to lead more than 10,000 people to retreat to Henan Mountain.

In early August, Wei Minglang led 40,000 party cavalry to cross the Tanglai Canal in the Tianxing Valley, 60 miles north of Dingzhou, and the 40,000 cavalry did not have the river to block it, and galloped all the way south, directly to Dingzhou.

On the evening of the day when he learned that the party had sent troops, Fanning convened an urgent meeting to discuss how to deal with the party cavalry.

Everyone unanimously believed that only by completely annihilating this party cavalry in a battle could the hope of Xingqing Mansion be completely extinguished, Fanning agreed with everyone's opinion and decided to send troops to meet the 40,000 party cavalry head-on.

Fan Ning immediately made a decision, Han Jiang continued to lead an army of 300,000 to besiege Xingqing Mansion, and he personally led an army of 150,000 to Dingzhou to meet the last hope of this 40,000 party cavalry.

At the same time, there were fifty steamers and 300 thousand-stone warships heading north, and Fanning's 150,000-strong army included 80,000 cavalry and 70,000 elite infantry.

In addition, Fan Ning ordered Chen Yan, the commander of the capital, to lead 30,000 cavalry to make a detour to the north to copy the lair of the Nanshan Dangxiang.

After the deployment of the army, the 15th army set off overnight and rushed to the direction of Dingzhou.

On the morning of the next day, Fanning led an army of 150,000 troops to about ten miles south of Dingzhou, and the Tanglai Canal passed through the city from Dingzhou, parallel to the Yellow River.

Tanglai Canal is connected with the Yellow River from Tianxing Gorge, all the way south, always parallel with the Yellow River, Dingzhou, Xingqingfu, Jingzhou, Shunzhou, Huaizhou are all located between Tanglai Canal and the Yellow River, the distance between the two canals is narrow in the north and wide in the south, the narrowest point is in Dingzhou, the narrowest point is only two miles, from the east of Dingzhou City to the south of Dingzhou City about ten miles, almost in the area of more than ten miles long, the distance between the two rivers is only two miles.

The army was in formation, with 30,000 crossbowmen in front, followed by a phalanx of 40,000 spearmen, 10,000 cavalry on each side, and a phalanx of 60,000 cavalry behind.

In fact, there is no battlefield here, and the north of the Song army is a narrow sandwich between the Yellow River and the Tanglai Canal, which cannot accommodate 40,000 cavalry to kill at the same time, and the Song army's crossbowmen only need to face the assault of 10,000 cavalry at most.

This is the geographical advantage that Fanning wants to grab, and the two great rivers severely limit the battlefield of the cavalry, making the attack of 40,000 cavalry force into four successive attacks of 10,000 cavalry.

The Song army built a low wall about six feet high and two miles long, and 30,000 Song army crossbowmen stood behind the sandbag wall with their crossbows in their hands, behind them were 40,000 spearmen, 10,000 cavalry on each side, and then 60,000 cavalry, and 150,000 troops were murderous and ready for battle.

The 40,000 Dangxiang cavalry slowed down when they approached Dingzhou, Wei Minglang was very familiar with the terrain, he knew that the Song army would definitely block him in a narrow area two miles wide, he was not worried about a hard battle with the Song army, but worried that the Song army would lay thistle thorns on the narrow passage of more than ten lengths.

Some of his generals advised him to cross the river near Xingqing Mansion, but the intelligence told Wei Minglang that the Song army was full of warships in the section of the Tanglai Canal between Dingzhou and Xingqing Mansion, and his army could not cross the hundred-zhang wide Tanglai Canal at all, and if he forcibly crossed the river, only half of the cavalry would die in Hanoi.

The cavalry walked slowly, they leaned on the side of the Yellow River to march, as far away as possible from the head of Dingzhou City, after Dingzhou they never found that there were thistle thorns, Wei Minglang was relieved, he realized that the Song army also had cavalry, all did not deploy thistle thorns.

At this time, the spies came to report that the main force of the Song army was found ten miles away, about more than 100,000.

Wei Minglang looked at the terrain on both sides, although it was a good plain, but the two rivers were too close, and the width of the ground was about two miles, which could only accommodate 10,000 cavalry at most, and his 40,000 cavalry could not spread the battlefield at all.

Wei Minglang had to secretly admire the other party's commander, using the terrain to the extreme, his 40,000 cavalry was limited by the terrain, and suddenly lost at least sixty percent of their combat effectiveness, unless they could break through the Song army's defensive line and enter the open field in front, otherwise they were really slowly worn to death by the Song army here, or retreat, but if the Song army did not move, it would not be meaningful for them to retreat.

"The First Army is ready to storm!"

Wei Minglang gave a sharp order, he must break the Song army's defensive line and spread the battle line.

10,000 cavalry quickly set up a formation, they were in a row of 2,000 cavalry, arranged in five rows, the second army was also arranged in the back, also arranged in five rows, 2,000 cavalry occupied exactly two miles of width, the cavalry held a sword in hand, a leather shield on their backs, immediately hung a short spear, pulled the reins with one hand, the war horse snorted, and the strong front hooves hit the ground.

"Attack!"

Wei Minglang waved his sword and gave the order to attack.

'Woo-' The sound of a low horn resounded through the field, and ten thousand cavalry took the lead.

Ten thousand horses galloping, the earth is trembling, stirring up rolling yellow dust, the second 10,000 cavalry team is also slowly on the stage, ready to attack, their ordinary soldiers are dressed in leather armor, wearing leather shields and short spears, waist swords, this is the most common attire of the Western Xia army, but the generals are wearing gilded bronze armor, wearing a hood, holding a war spear, wearing a long sword at the waist, particularly murderous.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! The war drums sounded rapidly, and the 30,000 Song army crossbowmen raised their divine arm crossbows with a 45-degree oblique angle, aiming at the sky.

The range of the divine arm crossbow is up to two hundred and forty steps, because it is a throw, the arrow falls from the sky, its killing range is also two hundred and forty steps, the divine arm crossbow can shoot through the enemy's shield and armor, with extremely strong lethality, since its birth, it has made the Liao army and the Western Xia army frightened.

The Western Xia cavalry was getting closer and closer, the dust was overwhelming, filling the sky, the first row of cavalry in the Western Xia had already entered within three hundred steps, Di Qing still did not give an order, when the first row of cavalry gradually entered two hundred and fifty steps, he shouted: "Shoot!" ”

The sound of the bangzi sounded, and the 10,000 crossbowmen in the first and second rows fired at the same time, and 10,000 crossbow arrows were overwhelming towards the galloping cavalry, and the dense rain of arrows shot into the cavalry group like a storm, and countless cavalrymen were hit by arrows one after another, and the horses fell, and at least a thousand cavalrymen were shot by the arrows or tripped by the cavalry in front.

The first batch of shots, immediately squatted down and wound, the second batch of 10,000 crossbow arrows were shot, the strong crossbow arrows roared again, the crossbow arrows were as dense as rain, the Xixia cavalry were lying behind the war horses, but the war horses had nowhere to dodge, and the Xixia people turned over on their backs, and suffered heavy casualties, at this time the third batch was 10,000 crossbow arrows shot, but their target was the last row of the cavalry, and the two thousand cavalry wailed and rolled in the fall of 10,000 arrows........

The first round of 30,000 crossbow arrows was fired, and 10,000 cavalry were killed and wounded more than 30 percent, but the Western Xia cavalry did not withdraw the troops, Wei Minglang was to sacrifice the 10,000 cavalry to break through the Song army's defensive line.

After shooting the first round of arrows, the front cavalry has rushed to one hundred and fifty steps away, the second round of the Song army's bow and crossbow soldiers began, this time it was not a throw, but a flat shot, the first batch of soldiers knelt down on one knee, raised a crossbow and shot flat, 10,000 powerful crossbow arrows were shot into the cavalry in the wild rush, which was equivalent to running wildly to meet the crossbow arrows, increasing the armor-breaking strength of the crossbow arrows, after the first round of arrows, many soldiers were holding leather shields to block, but it was still useless, the crossbow arrows pierced the leather shield, shot through the leather armor, shot into the chest, Countless soldiers fell from their horses amid screams.

Immediately after the second and third batches, 20,000 crossbow arrows were fired strongly.

After the second round of 30,000 crossbow arrows, the seven cavalry in the wild race lost more than half again, and only more than 3,000 cavalry remained of the 10,000 cavalry of the first army.

Wei Minglang's face was as cold as water, and when everyone thought that he was going to withdraw his troops, he grabbed the drumstick and personally beat the offensive war drums, and the offensive war drums in the Western Xia army were loud.

The ferocity of the Dangxiang people is here, although the casualties are nearly seventy percent, in the sound of offensive war drums, more than 3,000 cavalry still rushed towards the Song army front.

And the 10,000 cavalry behind also sped up, and they had already killed a mile away from the Song army, Wei Minglang's idea was very clear, since the first army could not break through the Song army's defense line, then use them to suppress the Song army's bow and crossbow, and create conditions for the second army to tear the Song army's defense line.

Di Qing saw that the enemy had already killed within seventy paces, and the crossbowmen did not have time to shoot a third round, so he immediately shouted: "Spear on!" Crossbowmen retreat! ”

The flag was flying, the bell of the withdrawal was ringing, the 30,000 crossbowmen quickly retreated, and the 40,000 spears rushed forward, and the dense forest-like spears were set on the sandbag wall, and only death awaited the Western Xia cavalry.

Fifty steps, thirty steps, twenty steps.......

The Western Xia cavalry who rushed to the front screamed in fear, and thousands of horses jumped up, jumped over the sandbag wall, and crashed directly into the forest of spears.